Mateus, Esplanada is there for this. If you are a brazilian editor you
"MUST" know and follow pt.wiki esplanada (unless, of course, you're outside
the country and edit en.wiki, es.wiki or fr.wiki (or any other) and in this
case, the rules for visa are different).
And I'm completely against restrict scholarships based in visa.
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livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que
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On 1 November 2011 20:41, Mateus Nobre <mateus.nobre(a)live.co.uk> wrote:
Yeah, but not all brazilians editors follow these
lists.
A good idea too give priority to whom already have the visa. This could
avoid problems to Wikimania staff.
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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:36:20 +0000
From: berialima(a)gmail.com
To: wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012: The Visas Issue
wikimediabr-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org is there for this.
We also have wikipt(a)lists.wikimedia.org , lista(a)wikimedia.pt and
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada<http://pt.wikipedi…
you can't follow any of those list and is brasilian I don't know what
else they can be ;) )
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*Béria Lima*
<http://wikimedia.pt/>(351) 925 171 484
*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que
estamos a fazer <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos>.*
On 1 November 2011 20:29, Mateus Nobre <mateus.nobre(a)live.co.uk> wrote:
For me it's easy. But it could catch someone by surprise and this
someone may not have the visa. And take a U.S. visa in six months in some
countries is really hard....
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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:26:02 +0000
From: berialima(a)gmail.com
To: wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012: The Visas Issue
How that can be possible if the answers to scholarship applications are
made in January - March? I would suggest to - If you applied for the
scholarship - send a mail to the USA embassy scheduling the request for
visa. If takes at least 3 months, will be done only in Feb (if you request
now - December is a dead month in Brazil) and by them, you will have a
result for your application.
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<http://wikimedia.pt/>(351) 925 171 484
*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que
estamos a fazer <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos>.*
On 1 November 2011 20:20, Mateus Nobre <mateus.nobre(a)live.co.uk> wrote:
http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/without/without_1990.html#countries
Hello everyone,
As you know in 2012, United States will held Wikimania at Washington D.C.!
Yeah.
But make a Wikimania in U.S.A. have some problems, you probably know it
but I wanna clarify to you.
U.S. just dispense visas to thirty-six nations. All of the dozens left
over need a visa to enter in.
Last year I was selected to attend Wikimania 2011 at Haifa* (the best
moments ever in my life, btw, would love to support Washington too, ops :D)
* and WMF contacted me six months before.
In this ''six months before'' have one problem.
In Brazil (not only, but in the most countries that need the visa) we take
3 months to schedule (and get some free time - it's vacation in Brazil and
the people wanna travel) the visit to U.S. Embassy to require the visa.
When we requite the visa, we take more 3~~4 months to receive the answer of
Embassy. Over 6 months. And half per cent of the visas are denied. We could
appeal, and would take more two months.
It would be the biggest problem ever in a Wikimania organization. And
happens in a really lot of countries which need a visa to enter in U.S.A.
I suggest to announce to the people who live in that countries early.
Earliest as possible. Maybe 8 or 9 months before... Take a visa to US
really isn't easy.
What do you think?
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